PortableDevices

Python code to access devices using the Windows Portable Devices API (e.g. Media Transfer Protocol - MTP - devices)

For now, only directory listing and transfer to the device is implemented.

Installation and Usage

• Get comtypes.
• Next you need let comtypes build the interfaces. I needed to fiddle around the generated code, to get it working:
  • comment-in the comtypes.client.GetModule(...) lines (or call both from Python console)
  • Then I had to define some parameters as in-out that were just out parameters. In _1F001332_1A57_4934_BE31_AFFC99F4EE0A_0_1_0.py (found it in C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\comtypes\gen):
    • In IEnumPortableDeviceObjectIDs, in function Next change the parameter pObjIDs to ['in', 'out']
    • In IPortableDeviceContent, in function CreateObjectWithPropertiesAndData change the parameter ppData to ['in', 'out']
    • In ISequentialStream, in function RemoteRead change the parameters pv and pcbRead to ['in', 'out']
    • In IPortableDeviceResources, in function GetStream change the parameter ppStream to ['in', 'out']
  • Remove all bad asserts from the generated files (_1F001332_1A57_4934_BE31_AFFC99F4EE0A_0_1_0.py and _2B00BA2F_E750_4BEB_9235_97142EDE1D3E_0_1_0.py)
    • This seems not to be necessary anymore
• Now you can:
  • List devices with PortableDevices.py ls
  • List directory contents with PortableDevices.py ls [Device]/directory
  • Upload files with PortableDevices.py cp source [Device]/directory
  • Download files with PortableDevices.py get [Device]/directory target

License

This software is licensed under the MIT license.